48 Hours a Day

Chapter 1095: T-148

Fan Meinan subconsciously took half a step back. She had no way of stopping the snake swarm after using up that piece of chocolate. Although she still had two items on her, they weren’t of much use at a time like this. Ma Lu, on the other hand, was an ordinary person, and she couldn’t count on him. In fact, it was impressive enough that he hadn’t been scared shitless already.

Fortunately, Zhang Heng’s voice came from behind them.

“Alright, leave the rest to me.”

Ma Lu turned around and realized that the pile of Lego bricks in front of Zhang Heng had disappeared. In its place were two metal canisters that were as tall as a person. They were connected to each other and had a pressure monitor and safety valve on top. At the bottom was a hose connected to something that looked like a flamethrower.

Now, the nozzle was in Zhang Heng’s hand.

After Ma Lu and Fan Meinan retreated behind him, Zhang Heng pulled the trigger and a terrifying pillar of fire shot out the muzzle. The terrifying, over-60 meter-long inferno engulfed almost everything in front of it. Wherever the flames passed, many snakes were directly roasted. Some were even burnt to charcoal, and the air was filled with the smell of burnt flesh.

When Zhang Heng finished his first flame injection, there were almost no other living creatures within 25 meters of them.

The T-148 flamethrower was manufactured by the Italian company TIRENA. First appearing in the 1980s, it was used to deal with a large number of enemies and strong fortifications. In other words, it was a piece of equipment that was used on the battlefield to gnaw on the toughest bones. It was an extremely powerful weapon, not to mention that Zhang Heng had also expanded its fuel capacity.

The standard T-148 flamethrower could shoot up to 18 times, while the “plus” version that Zhang Heng had assembled with Lego and Infinite Building Blocks could be used at least 30 times. When he pressed the trigger, Ma Lu, who was a meter behind him, could also feel an astonishing heatwave, causing his hair to curl involuntarily.

What surprised Ma Lu more was that he had no idea where Zhang Heng got this set of equipment. Just a few minutes ago, Zhang Heng had been lying on the ground playing with his pack of building blocks.

However, too many unbelievable things had happened that night, and Ma Lu was already somewhat numbed by it. He knew that even if he opened his mouth, Zhang Heng might not be willing to explain it to him.

After burning at least a few hundred snakes in one go, Zhang Heng put down the airbrush and picked up the Hidden Scabbard by his feet. He started to deal with the new batch of snakes that were crawling toward them. With a swing of his knife, the few snakes quickly followed in the footsteps of their companions, and when the snakes behind them gathered again and increased in number, Zhang Heng picked up the airbrush again.

After repeating this a few times, the whole station looked as if it had been roasted in a furnace. Although there were still snakes slithering out of the tunnel, it was unknown if it was because they were completely terrified of the corpses of their compatriots, or because they did not like high temperatures that fewer and fewer snakes were coming toward them.

On the contrary, the body of the sperm whale was already crawling with all kinds of snakes, densely packed together. These snakes were constantly eating the whale’s flesh, as though enjoying a feast. In addition, there were also snakes crawling into its head through its pores.

“This is...” Ma Lu too was attracted by this cruel scene. He even temporarily forgot that they weren’t completely out of danger yet.

“That’s right. This sperm whale is here because something wanted to feed the snakes in this place,” Zhang Heng said lightly as he casually cut off a ring snake that was trying to crawl to his feet.

He then dusted it with the T-148. He could basically confirm that although the snakes in front of him were a mixture of different species, some even endangered or declared extinct, they were essentially just ordinary snakes with no mutation.

As for why the three of them were targeted by the serpents, it wasn’t because someone was behind the scenes, secretly controlling the swarm, or if the group of snakes really wanted to support the small snake. It was purely because the three of them were unlucky. They just happened to be at the dinner time of the snake group and were mistaken for food along with the sperm whale.

“Who? No, what kind of thing feeds a whale to a snake?” Ma Lu was shocked.

He only asked this question subconsciously because he had already asked Zhang Heng once during the earthquake. Zhang Heng did not know what they were up against, so Ma Lu didn’t expect to get an answer.

However, Zhang Heng actually answered him this time.

“I can roughly guess whose territory we are in.”

“Who?” Fan Meinan raised his eyebrows.

“You’ve been Loki’s agent for some time, so you should have done some research on him. You know that besides his wife, Sigurn, Loki also had three children with the female giant, Angelboda. These three children are much more famous than his and Sigurn’s two children.”

“The earth-shaking monster Fenrir, the earthly Python Jemengard, and the goddess of death, Hela. They’re similar to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. When they appear, it means the end of the world is nigh!” Fan Meinan replied fluently before a look of realization appeared on his face. “We met Jemengard?”

Jemengard, the second child of Loki and the female giant Angelboda, was Fenrir’s younger brother, Hela’s older brother, Thor’s sworn enemy, and the rumored Python with a huge body. As soon as Jemengard was born, he was regarded as a major threat to Asgard by the main god Odin. It was a disaster that would befall Asgard.

Therefore, Odin threw him into the bottomless sea of the mortal world when he was young. When he grew up, his body became bigger and bigger. He stretched his body and bit his tail, enveloping the entire mortal world, therefore, he was also known as the giant snake that surrounded the atrium.

In the twilight of the gods, Jemengard met his mortal enemy Thor. A fierce battle broke out between the two of them. In the end, Thor hit Jemengard’s head with his hammer, and Jemengard injected the venom into Thor’s body. The two eventually died together.

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“I should have thought of it earlier. The Ouroboros itself means both the beginning and the end. It has the meaning of an endless cycle. That’s why we were trapped in that endless tunnel. There were also those construction workers who suffered from strange diseases. They must have been unknowingly poisoned by Jemengard’s poison. It was also Jemengard who brought this sperm whale, which was originally roaming in the deep sea, here to feed the snakes in the tunnel,” Zhang Heng said.